First the e protections of refugees trash the reputations of refugees, and we trash our own history. Amy the political crisis of our time. Then, on this First Anniversary of President Trumps inauguration, well speak to a princeton professor who faced Death Threats after calling President Trump a racist. Donald trump is really the first president to embrace White Supremacy since the administration of woodrow wilson. And i think that the implications of that can really be measured in the weight of the bodies of people who have been killed by open white supremacist and open racist over the last year. Amy Keeanga Yamahtta taylor on race and class in the era of trump, from black lives matter to the white power presidency. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives passed a shortterm spending bill thursday setting up a highstakes debate in the senate ahead of a midnight deadline tonight to reach a deal or face a government shutdown. Voted 230197rs in favor of republican led continuing resolution to fund the government through february 16. In the senate, Many Democrats have said they will vote against a bill that fails to protect recipients, undocumented young immigrants brought to the United States as children. This is paul ryan. Not shut schumer, do down the federal government. Senate d democrats, do not oppoe anything that is in this ill. Theyre just holding this critical funding hostage for a deal the completely unrelated immigration issueue. Yes, we need to address the daca program and we are engaged in good faith negotiations as we speak. But that deadline is weeks away. Amy it is not clear whether Senate Democrats will support another stopgap spending bill. Speaking from the senate floor thursday, democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer noted this is the fourth continuing resolution before the senate in recent months. There is no promise and no likelihood that another kicking of the can down the road will get something done. We have to sit down together and solve this with the president or without. Ofil that happens, no amount crs will get this done. Amy protesters continued to flood lawmakers offices to demand passage of a socalled clean dream act, that would grant legal status to Daca Recipients without concessions for funding for the border wall or enhanced border security. On thursday, members of the group united we dream many of them Daca Recipients chanted undocumented and unafraid outside the office of virginia democratic senator mark warner. 100 Daca Recipients lose their status each day. As the deadline looms tonight, President Trump heads to maralago to play golf and celebrate the First Anniversary of his inauguration. In northern california, immigrant communities are bracing for a crackdown by u. S. Immigration and customs enforcement, following reports that ice agents are planning raids with a goal of arresting over 1500 people. The San Francisco chronicle reports the crackdown will be centered in the bay area, and that the ice raids will be the largest yet under President Trump. News of the looming crackdown comes days after the agencys acting director thomas homan said he would target california after it formally declared itself a sanctuary state for immigrants at the start of the new year. Homan has also said he wants to arrest politicians who resist the Trump Administrations immigration policies. On tuesday, Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told a Senate Committee she was looking into charges. The department of justice is reviewing what avenues might be avaiailable. The contexext of this is not ony puputting my ice officers at rik of a finding an efficient and effective way to enforce our immigration laws. In carbondale, colorado, immigrant rights activists joining nationwide womens mamarches on saturday will rally to the defense of sandra lopez, an undocumented immigrant and mother of three whos taken sanctuary with a local church to avoid being deported to mexico. Lopez is a leader with the colorado immigrant rights coalition. She has fought removal proceedings since she was arrested in 2010 after she says one of her children mistakenly dialed 911. Charges in the case were dropped, but shes faced the prospect of deportatation ever since. This is sandra lopez speaking recently with democracy now from inside the unitarian parsonage where shes taken sanctuary with her 2yearold daughter. We need to be orgaganized. We need to leave behind d the fr anand the shadows and cocontinue raising our voices. There is a quote that divided we fall but were going to continue defending our dignity and continue defending sanctuary. Amy the trump admdministratatin has removed haitians from eligibility under a pair of u. S. Visa programs that offer immigrants a chance to work in lowwage jobs. In a regulatory filing, the department of Homeland Security said this weekek haitians will o longer be allowed to obtain h2a agricultural and h2b nonagricultural temporary work permits. In explaining its move, the dhs cited what it called high levels of fraud and abuse committed by haitians. In november, President Trump ended temporary protected status, or tps, for nearly 60,000 haitians, many of whom came to the United States after the devastating 2010 earthquake in haiti. In haitis capital portauprince, demonstrators gathered thursday outside the u. S. Embassy to protest trumps policies and to condemn his recent remarks in which he called haiti, el salvador, and african nations shole countries. This is David Oxygene of the movement f for liberty and equality of haitians. We are saying that donald trump is a racist, criminal president. He cant set foot on this land. He should not come to any country in the caribbean, nor any in africa because he treats those countries like [beep] amy the u. S. Supreme court has frozen a Lower Court Ruling striking down north carolinas Congressional District map as unconstitutional. The high courts 72 ruling was submitted without explanation, with justices sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting. Last weeks Lower Court Ruling marked the first time a federal court has struck down a congressional map because of political gerrymandering. Thursdays freeze by the supreme cocourt is likikely to keep in e north carolilinas long, windin, and oddlyshaped Congressional Districts through novembers midterm elections, in a delay that will likely benefit republicans. New w data from nasa and the United Nations show 2017 was the among the hottest years in recorded history, second only to 2016, as global carbrbon dioxide levels soared to a new record level and global surface temperatures rose by 2 degrees fahrenheit above preindustrial levels. This is omar baddour, Senior Scientist with the World Meteorological organization. Today we can announce that [indiscernible] we can say it is part of the record. Rmest records onn 2015, 2016, and 2017. Amy 2017s nearrecord heat came without el nino weather patterns that historically drive Global Temperatures higher, suggesting that human activity has dwarfed natural variability as the largest driver of the climate. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has announced u. S. Troops will remain indefinitely in syria. But let us be clear, the United States will maintain a military presence in syria, focused on ensuring isis cannot reemerge. Amy tillerson said the troops are need to counter the government of syrian president Bashar Alassad and iranian influence. This comes as the monitoringng group airwars has revealed as many 6100 civilians were killed in u. S. Backed airstrikes in syria and iraq last year, more than double the previous year. Three times higher than the previous year. Meanwhile, tension is rising on the northern border of syria as turkey is preparing for what looks like an assault in the kurdish enclave of afrin. The Trump Administration acknowledged thursday it is withholding 45 million in emergency food aid pledged to palestinians living under israeli occupation. This is state Department SpokespersonHeather Nauert speaking on thursday. That was something that we contributiono make in early 2018 for that 40 finally nellis for the west bank and gaza emergency appeal, noah simply for food aid. We routinely provide them with that cap of forecasting. At the time when we provided , we information to unrwa made clear was a pledge, not a guarantee, and it would need to be confirmed later. Amy the move to withhold food aid came as the Trump Administration cut off a further 65 million in annual u. S. Funding for unrwa, the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration said thursday it would relocate its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem by the end of the year a move condemned by palestinians, who say negotiations over the final status of the city are critical to any future peace agreement. In egypt, media activists have launched a new archihive Holding Hundreds of hours of footage shot and collected around the 2011 revolution that toppled longtime dictator hosni mubarak. The archive, named 858 an arche of resistance, was compiled by the egyptian media collective mosireen and is 858. Ma. Le online at President Trumps appointee to the federal agency that runs americorps and other Service Programs has resigned after cnn aired a series of comments he made disparaging women, muslims, blacks, immigrants, gays, lesbians, and trans people. Carl higbie resignation as chief of external affairs in the corporation for national and Community Service came after cnn rebroadcast higbies remarks to radio shows, as recently as 2016, in which higbie says black people suffer from lax morality and that they think that breeding is a form of employment. Higbie led the protrump Great America pac and served as a surrogate for thencandidate donald trump in 2016, when he defended trumps proposed registry of muslims by citing world war ii japaneseamerican internment camps. The Trump Administration clear the way thursday for Health Care Workers to refuse to provide services, including abortions, gender affirming surgery, and contraception that run counter to their stated moral or religious convictions. This is the head of the newlyformed office of civil rights inside the health and human serviceses department. We are seeing with the launch of this division, you do not need to shed your religious identity, shed your mororal convictions to be part of the public square. Everyone is entitled to an equal seat. Amy naral prochoice america blasted the move, tweeting despite the name, this division isnt actually here to enforce religious freedom its designed to protect providers who discriminate against women lgbtq people. The new department is supposedly called the conscience and religious freedom division. That is of the hhs. Women employees of the United Nations say the organization is rife with Sexual Harassment and assault, with accusers largely ignored and perpetrators free to act with impunity. The guardian interviewed dozens of current and former United Nations employees, who described a worldwide culture of silence across the u. N. , and a grievance system that is stacked against victctims. Meanwhile, former colleagues of Los Angeles Times ceo Ross Levinsohn have accused the papers executive of creating a frat house environment rife with Sexual Harassment. Npr reports levinsohn has been a defendant in two Sexual Harassment lawsuits, and is known for publicly ranking the socalled hotness of female coworkers. The report comes as the l. A. Times focuses much of its coverage on the growing Metoo Movement and the times up campaign against sexual abuse in hollywood. And paul booth, longtime labor leader and antiwar activist, has died at the age of 74. In 1965, booth helped lead the first major march against the vietnam war in washington, d. C. Through much of the 1960s, paul booth was a spokesperson for students for a democratic society, the campusbased civil rights and antiwar group. Booth went on to organize on behalf of working people for more than four decades with afscme, the countrys largest publicemployees union. Paul booth died wednesday of complications frfrom leukemia in washington, d. C. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , demomocracynow. Org, the war r ad peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatatives passed a shortterm spending bill late thursday, setting up a highstakes showdown in t the sesenate today ahead o of a midt deadline to reach a deal or face government shutdown. 230197 members voted in favor of republicanled continuing resolution to fund the government through february 16. In the senate, Many Democrats have said they will vote against a bill that t fails to protect young dreamers. , undocumented immigrants who are brought to the u. S. As children. This is mitch mcconnell. They want a sensible compromise on immigration. But they cannot, madam president , for the life of them understand why, why some senators would hold the entire arrive hostage until we problem that to a does not fully materialize until march. Military families, veterans, and thedren benefiting from schip program dont need to be shoved aside. They dont need to be shoved aside while we continue goodfaith negotiations. Amy 100 Daca Recipients lose their status every day. Well, the debate over immigration could not only force a u. S. Government shututdown. Our next guestst argues that migrants and refugees ara a key political crisis worldwide. The United Nations refugee agencys most recent annual report says the number of displaced people worldwide has hit a record high, with more than 65 Million People forcibly displaced from their homes across the globe that is 20 people forced to flee their homes every single minute. These refugees often face deadly journeys to reach safety. Last week,k, humanitarian groups said dozens of refugees drowned when their b boat sank off the coast of libya en route to europe. This week, the arizona humanitarian group no more deaths accused u. S. Border , patrol agents of routinely sabotaging or confiscating humanitarian aid left by activists near the border with mexico, condemning some mexican and Central American refugees to die of exposure or dehydration in the sonora desert. As the humanitarian crisis grows, many nations, particularly the United States, are limiting immigration and closing their borders. During his first year in office, President Trump has sought to ban n all refugees and citizensf mainly majoritymuslim nations. And when federal judges struck down multiple veversions of f te socalled muslim travel bans, trump then slashed the number of refugees who could be resettled in the United States this year, capping the number at 45,000 the lowest level in three decades. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration has also cut 65 million in annual contributions to the u. N. Palestinian refugee agency, known as unrwa. On thursday, pope francis made an urgent appeal on behalf of refugees and migrants, while speaking on the last day of his visit to chile. We know well there is no Christian Joy when doors are closed. There is no Christian Joy when others are made to feel unwanted, when theres no room for them in our. We must be alert that work is becoming more precarious, which destroys lives and homes. We must alert to those that take advantage of the irregularly of immigrants because they dont understand the language or dont have their papers. We must be alert to the lackck f housing, land, and work of so many families. Amy well, for more, were joined now by david miliband, president and ceo of the International Rescue committee. Former British Labor mp, and the brother of labor leader ed miliban